Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0166

Title: Shockwave Flash plugin malformed tag length causes DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0166.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 26, 2001

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.70%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0166: Macromedia Shockwave Flash plugin version 8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed tag length specifiers in a SWF file.

Impacted Vendors

macromedia 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0491.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5826 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0491.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5826

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0166 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 26, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.